This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.159 release. There are 58 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Wed Feb 20 13:34:40 UTC 2019. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.159-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.159-rc1
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm: stop leaking PageTables
Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com pinctrl: msm: fix gpio-hog related boot issues
Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com netfilter: nf_tables: fix mismatch in big-endian system
John Youn johnyoun@synopsys.com usb: dwc2: Remove unnecessary kfree
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com kaweth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ch9200: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
James Hughes james.hughes@raspberrypi.org smsc95xx: Use skb_cow_head to deal with cloned skbs
Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Prevent a race during I915_GEM_MMAP ioctl with WC set
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT
Hedi Berriche hedi.berriche@hpe.com x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
Andreas Ziegler andreas.ziegler@fau.de tracing/uprobes: Fix output for multiple string arguments
Meelis Roos mroos@linux.ee alpha: Fix Eiger NR_IRQS to 128
Sergei Trofimovich slyfox@gentoo.org alpha: fix page fault handling for r16-r18 targets
Matti Kurkela Matti.Kurkela@iki.fi Input: elantech - enable 3rd button support on Fujitsu CELSIUS H780
Jonathan Bakker xc-racer2@live.ca Input: bma150 - register input device after setting private data
Xiaoyao Li xiaoyao.li@linux.intel.com kvm: vmx: Fix entry number check for add_atomic_switch_msr()
Manuel Reinhardt manuel.rhdt@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix implicit fb endpoint setup by quirk
Jurica Vukadin jurica.vukadin@rt-rk.com ALSA: hda - Add quirk for HP EliteBook 840 G5
Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback
Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warning
Mauro Ciancio mauro@acadeu.com Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Revert "Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in ASUS Aspire F5-573G"
Milian Wolff milian.wolff@kdab.com perf report: Include partial stacks unwound with libdw
Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com cifs: Limit memory used by lock request calls to a page
Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org gpio: pl061: handle failed allocations
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org ARM: dts: kirkwood: Fix polarity of GPIO fan lines
Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ARM: dts: da850-lcdk: Correct the sound card name
Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ARM: dts: da850-evm: Correct the sound card name
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/bridge: tc358767: fix output H/V syncs
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/bridge: tc358767: reject modes which require too much BW
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/bridge: tc358767: fix initial DP0/1_SRCCTRL value
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/bridge: tc358767: fix single lane configuration
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/bridge: tc358767: add defines for DP1_SRCCTRL & PHY_2LANE
Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com cpufreq: check if policy is inactive early in __cpufreq_get()
Chao Fan fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com ACPI: NUMA: Use correct type for printing addresses on i386-PAE
Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net bnx2x: disable GSO where gso_size is too big for hardware
Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net net: create skb_gso_validate_mac_len()
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: ensure that processor vtables is not lost after boot
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: split out processor lookup
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8810/1: vfp: Fix wrong assignement to ufp_exc
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8797/1: spectre-v1.1: harden __copy_to_user
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8796/1: spectre-v1,v1.1: provide helpers for address sanitization
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8795/1: spectre-v1.1: use put_user() for __put_user()
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8793/1: signal: replace __put_user_error with __put_user
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8792/1: oabi-compat: copy oabi events using __copy_to_user()
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8791/1: vfp: use __copy_to_user() when saving VFP state
Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8789/1: signal: copy registers using __copy_to_user()
Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de uapi/if_ether.h: prevent redefinition of struct ethhdr
Adrian Bunk bunk@kernel.org eeprom: at24: add support for 24c2048
Adrian Bunk bunk@kernel.org dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: add "atmel,24c2048" compatible string
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Diffstat:
.../devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt | 5 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/irq.h | 6 +- arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-lcdk.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-dnskw.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 ++++ arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h | 1 + arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h | 61 +++++++++++++++---- arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 49 +++++++++++++-- arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S | 6 +- arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 40 ++++++++----- arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 70 ++++++++++++---------- arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 32 ++++++++++ arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c | 8 ++- arch/arm/lib/copy_from_user.S | 6 +- arch/arm/lib/copy_to_user.S | 6 +- arch/arm/lib/uaccess_with_memcpy.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-integrator/impd1.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 10 ++++ arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c | 17 +----- arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 20 +++---- arch/x86/events/core.c | 14 +++++ arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 9 +++ arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 16 ++++- arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c | 6 +- arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h | 8 ++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 +- arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 23 ++++++- drivers/acpi/numa.c | 6 +- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 7 +-- drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 7 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/tc358767.c | 41 ++++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 12 +++- drivers/input/misc/bma150.c | 9 +-- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 2 +- drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 9 +++ drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 55 +++++++++++++++-- drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 18 ++++++ drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c | 9 +-- drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 18 ++---- drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 12 ++-- drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 23 +++++-- drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 1 - fs/cifs/file.c | 8 +++ fs/cifs/smb2file.c | 4 ++ include/linux/perf_event.h | 5 ++ include/linux/skbuff.h | 16 +++++ include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 29 +++++++++ include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 3 + include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h | 6 ++ kernel/events/core.c | 16 +++++ kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- kernel/signal.c | 7 ++- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 9 ++- mm/memory.c | 21 +++++-- net/core/skbuff.c | 63 +++++++++++++++---- net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_masq_ipv4.c | 8 +-- net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_redir_ipv4.c | 8 +-- net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_masq_ipv6.c | 8 +-- net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_redir_ipv6.c | 8 +-- net/netfilter/nft_ct.c | 10 ++-- net/netfilter/nft_meta.c | 42 ++++++------- net/netfilter/nft_nat.c | 8 +-- net/sched/sch_tbf.c | 10 ---- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 1 + sound/usb/pcm.c | 9 ++- tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 2 +- 73 files changed, 725 insertions(+), 268 deletions(-)